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BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)
BILATERIA
(bilaterally symmetrical animals)
PROTOSTOMIA
(protostomes)
ECDYSOZOA
(skin shedders)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)
PTERYGOTA
(winged insects)
Neoptera
(an infraclass of insects)
Endopterygota
(insects with wings developing internally)
HYMENOPTERA
(bees, wasps, ants, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
APOCRITA
(bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)
Aculeata
(aculeates: bees, wasps and ants)
FORMICOIDEA
(ants)
FORMICIDAE
(ants)
Formicidae
is also a member of:
Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

FORMICIDAE (ants)

Sets of Photographs

These relate to individual finds ("biological records") of the organism.

Taxon Summary # images # photos Date Vice-county Country
Formicidae Imago 1 1 16 Aug 1975 Surrey England

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #refs
Genus Formica (a genus of ants) 5 9 16 9
Genus Lasius (a genus of ants) 9 5 21 14
Genus Leptothorax (a genus of ants) 1      
Species Leptothorax nylanderi (Forster) (an ant)       1
Genus Myrmica (a genus of ants) 2 2   7
Aggregate Stenamma westwoodii s.l. (an ant)       1

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Bolton, B. & Collingwood, C.A., 1975 Hymenoptera: Formicidae
Collingwood, C.A., 1979 The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark
Rotheray, G.E., 1989 Aphid Predators

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 13 general literature references to FORMICIDAE (ants)

FORMICIDAE may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)		 Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)		 ANIMALIA
(animals)		 ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)		 INSECTA
(insects)		 HYMENOPTERA
(bees, wasps, ants, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)		 Aculeata
(aculeates: bees, wasps and ants)		 FORMICOIDEA
(ants)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 181 feeding and other relationships of FORMICIDAE (ants)

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